Cassie O’Neill is distraught when she’s falsely accused of tampering with lab results in her job as a researcher, but just when she thinks her life can’t get any worse, she hears that her loyal friend Meredith has been in a serious car crash. Cassie drops everything to fly to her side, but when Meredith’s brother Bran picks her up from the airport, he seems to hate her at first sight. She resolves to stay for her friend’s sake, but as she gets to know Bran, things soon become a lot more complicated . . .